Nederlands-Indische Droogdok-Maatschappij, Bewijs van aandeel, 1000 Gulden, 1873
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CollectWeb number
B1982NHAMST0001a
Product attributes
Country:
Netherlands
State/Province:
Noord-Holland
City/Town/Place:
Amsterdam
Company/Issuer:
Nederlands-Indische Droogdok-Maatschappij
Security type:
Bewijs van aandeel
Value:
1000 Gulden
Date/Year:
Juni 1873
KB:
21 Mei en 7 Juni 1873
Established:
18 April 1873
Printer:
Nederlandsche stoomdrukkerij, Amsterdam
Size (LxH mm):
180 x 230 mm
Description
In 1871 the former commander A.G. Bosch submitted a request to the governor general for permission to install two private floating docks in Java: a 4,000 tonne dock for Tandjung Priok, and a 2,000 tonne dock for Surabaya, along with the warf for repairs. The Nederlandsch-Indische Droogdok-Maatschappij was founded for this purpose. It ran up against countless setbacks. The first dock sank in 1878 before it had been put into operation; it proved to be irretrievable. The other dock was opened for vessels of up to 2,000 tonnes in December 1881, but a shipping commission reported in 1882 that it did not satisfy the requirements. Nevertheless, several vessels seem to be emerged succesfully from a spell in the dock in 1882. This dock was irreparably damaged by the Krakatau seaquacke in the following year. The company was dissolved in 1884. The NIDM consession was transferred to the stevedoring company in Batavia, which also owned a small warf in Surabaya. Both companies were combined in 1885 in the "NV Maatschappij tot exploitatie van droogdokken en reparatiewerven in Nederlandsch-Indië". This endevour was just as ill-fated and short-lived. Some thirty steamships and sailing vessels were serviced in the course of 1891. At the beginning of 1894 its iron dock was moved from the island of Amsterdam to Surabaya, where, after it had been put into operation in the latter place for the first time, it suddenly started to sink when the water was pumped up, and dissapeared into the deep. The company was dissolved in 1896. (Source: Engines of Empire: Steamshipping and State Formation in Colonial Indonesia, by J.N.F.M. à Campo).